Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: November 10, 2002
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=27902231
Vedas, the texts which encapsulate
the essence of the ancient Indian civilisation, may have found an evangelist
in the nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar.
She promised efforts in this direction
while addressing the second three-day national Vedic conference at the
Y.B. Chavan auditorium here on Saturday.
Among the galaxy of dignitaries
on the occasion wer Sandyojan Shankarashram Swami Maharaj, spiritual head
of the Chitrapur Math; Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi, conference convenor
Moreshwar Ghaisas of the Ghaisas Guruji Vedpathshala, Ram Shevalkar and
former city MP Anna Joshi.
Joshi, who inaugurated the conference,
set the ball rolling in his speech, inviting the celebrated singer to lend
her voice to the preservation of the Vedas, which incidentally, have been
passed down millennia through the oral tradition. Joshi also pledged central
assistance for such a project.
The late Vinayak Bhatta Ghaisas
Guruji award worth Rs 25 lakh, instituted by the Ghaisas Guruji Vedpathshala,
was also presented to the Ratnagiri-based vedpathshala (vedic school) on
the occasion.
